NOTE: it might be a smart idea to do “rm /system/bin/rootshell” after you have su and superuser in place as ANY program will have access to your root if you leave it (cause everyone will know the password)

If you feel comfortable following the above to the letter, you should have your Droid X rooted in no time. Of course, the usual caveats apply. Don’t do this if you don’t know what you’re doing and be prepared to transform your smartphone into a brick if something goes wrong.

If you don’t understand the instructions, it may be safest not to employ a ‘trial and error’ tactic, but have a bit more patience until an easier to use rooting procedure is available.

In other news, Verizon began trumpeting the fact that Droid X owners use five times more data than on any other smartphone they sell, without actually mentioning any numbers. This is, without a doubt, meant to prepare Verizon customers for the upcoming tiered data plans.

So it looks like those are a near certainty at this point. Enjoy your “unlimited”, soft-capped at 5Gb data for as long as you still can!

give credit where it is due, Birdman from alldroid.org is the originator of this root exploit.

Guest

Depends on how “originator” is defined. Someone who grab, modify a string and then compile an open source C program?

As far as I can find, the earliest appearance of the exploid.c source code was published by Sebastian Krahmer on his blog on 2010-Jul-15. Krahmer has mentioned the vulnerability used on 2010-Apr, though he is not the vulnerability discoverer.